Real Estate Updates Q1 2022 Western Washington Real Estate Market Update The following analysis of select counties of the Western Washington real estate market is provided by Windermere Real Estate Chief Economist Matthew Gardner. We hope that this information may assist you with making better-informed real estate decisions. For further information about the housing market in your area, please don’t hesitate to contact your Windermere Real […]
Real Estate Updates 2022 APRIL SEATTLE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Real Estate Updates 2022 APRIL EASTSIDE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Real Estate Updates 5 Design Projects to Improve Your Backyard Your home’s façade and front yard play a role in its curb appeal, but the backyard is for you and your household to enjoy. Spending time making improvements to your backyard will help to maximize your enjoyment of your property and can increase its value. These backyard design projects will help to beautify your yard while creating opportunities […]
Real Estate Updates Landscaping Tips That Can Increase Your Home’s Value When you own a home, there’s a natural desire to invest in landscaping projects that help beautify your yard. But for those who are preparing to sell, the emphasis should be on specific projects that boost your home’s curb appeal and add to its value. The following landscaping tips can help you position your home to […]
Real Estate Updates Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies in Real Estate Hello there, I’m Windermere Real Estate’s chief economist, Matthew Gardner, and welcome to the latest episode of Mondays with Matthew. This month we’re going to take a look at Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies themselves and how both may impact home buyers and sellers in the future. But before we dive into the potential impacts of cryptocurrency […]
Real Estate Updates Big Tech Makes a Big Bet: Offices Are Still the Future Even as they allow some employees to change how often they come into the office, tech companies are rapidly buying and leasing properties around the country. TEMPE, Ariz. — Early in the pandemic, when shops along Mill Avenue in downtown Tempe closed their doors and students at nearby Arizona State University were asked to go […]
Buyers & Sellers The housing market isn’t normalizing—Zillow predicts the wildest home price swing still awaits Depleted, stretched, and disheartened. That’s how a lot of home shoppers, who’ve lost home bid after bid over the past year, are feeling these days. When it comes to timing, they’ve certainly gotten the short end of the stick. Over the past 12 months, U.S. home prices are up 18.8%—an uptick larger than any 12-month […]
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Buyers & Sellers Monday with Matthew: The Impact of Rising Mortgage Rates The Impact of Rising Mortgage Rates Hello there. I’m Windermere Real Estate’s Chief Economist Matthew Gardner. Welcome to the latest episode of Monday with Matthew. Over the past several weeks I’ve gotten a lot of messages from you wanting me to discuss the spike in mortgage rates that followed comments by the Federal Reserve, but […]
Real Estate Updates 2022 March Seattle Real Estate Update
Real Estate Updates 2022 March Eastside Real Estate Update  
Real Estate Updates Seattle a bedroom town? How the Bellevue boom is echoing around the region When I wrote recently that Bellevue had become pricier than Manhattan, I noted that the Eastside city still lagged behind the king of insane and unaffordable real estate, San Francisco. But a local agent suggested it might be only a matter of time. “We expect that last record to fall sometime this summer, with Bellevue […]
Real Estate Updates Real Estate Investors Are Buying a Record Share of U.S. Homes Investors bought 18.4% of the U.S. homes that were purchased in the fourth quarter, a record high. Investor demand is stronger than ever as home prices increase, allowing investors to charge higher rents and sell flipped homes for higher prices. Real estate investors bought roughly 80,000 U.S. homes worth a total of $50 billion in […]
Real Estate Updates History of Woodridge & surrounding area Watch a documentary on the history of Woodridge and the surrounding area prepared by Eastside Heritage Center (EHC). history from Tarina Productions on Vimeo.
Buyers & Sellers Prosperity bomb 2.0? Bellevue passes Manhattan in housing prices For years Seattle has been in a high state of angst, or yearning in some cases, about the prospect that our fishing village was morphing into the new Manhattan. We had it all wrong. It turns out once-sleepy Bellevue was sprinting there first. You’ve probably been rubbernecking, as I have, at these insane stories about […]
Real Estate Updates 2022 FEBRUARY SEATTLE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Real Estate Updates 2022 FEBRUARY EASTSIDE REAL ESTATE UPDATE
Buyers & Sellers Beyond Supply And Demand: Today’s Tech Is Helping House Prices Skyrocket Falling interest rates and the pandemic are the top two reasons for house prices skyrocketing over the last year and a half but there’s another reason no one talks about. Today’s technology simply makes it easier for house prices to increase when buyer demand increases. If house prices are indeed more sensitive to increases in […]
Real Estate Updates Top 10 Predictions for 2022 Matthew Gardner’s Top 10 Predictions for 2022 1. Prices will continue to rise There are some who believe that U.S. home prices will drop in the coming year given last year’s extremely rapid pace of growth, but I disagree. I don’t expect prices to fall; however, the pace of appreciation will slow significantly, rising by […]
Real Estate Updates Homebuyers: Buckle up for another brutal spring housing market It’s usually around this time of year, with the holiday season firmly in the rearview mirror, that homebuyers and sellers alike begin to make their way back into the market. That will continue to pick up each week until March arrives. At that point, the industry’s busy season—known as the spring real estate market—will be […]